“Well, it’s okee-doke, you know,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “They change the narrative. They did the same thing with the African-American players who were kneeling, trying to make it into an anti-American thing, an anti-patriotic thing, and an anti-military thing. But no one’s going for that.”

On Sunday night, Spike Lee won his first competitive Oscar, picking up the best-adapted-screenplay award for BlacKkKlansman. At the end of his speech—which Lee dedicated in large part to his family, the slaves who built this country, and the indigenous people who have been killed in the name of American expansion—he urged viewers to get involved in the 2020 presidential election. “Let’s all be on the right side of history,” he said, reading his speech off a sheet of paper and adding a call for voters to “make the moral choice between love versus hate.”

Among the things he did not explicitly mention? Donald Trump, who, for the last few years, has taken it upon himself to hate-tweet the Academy Award ceremony. On Monday, Trump continued his tradition, this time aiming his ire directly at Lee and contorting the director’s acceptance speech, calling it a “racist hit on your President.”

“Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!” Trump tweeted.

Where to begin here? With Trump’s unverified claims about his achievements for the black community? His odd hang-up on Lee reading from his notes, considering the president’s own documented struggle with reading his own written statements? Or his decision to single out a prominent black filmmaker and make him the sole target of his Oscar ire?

Trump—we’re just guessing here!—probably isn’t too fond of BlacKkKlansman, which explicitly references the president and ends with sobering footage from the deadly Charlottesville protest that led to Trump’s infamous declaration that there were very fine people “on both sides” in that conflict. Lee has often criticized Trump on the BlacKkKlansman press circuit, frequently referring to him as “Agent Orange.” “He’s a man of hate, violence, and can’t be trusted to make moral decisions. We can’t be silent anymore,” Lee told Vanity Fair last July.

Regardless, it’s not surprising to see a post-Oscar tweet from the president, who has made no secret of his disdain for the prestigious awards ceremony—perhaps because it, like the Emmys, has never seen fit to give him a statuette. “I don’t know how much longer I can take this bullshit - so terrible!” he tweeted in 2014. In 2015, he wrote: “Show is terrible, really BORING!” In 2017, shortly after his inauguration, Trump claimed he would likely not watch the awards show . . . but ended up watching it anyway, later saying in an interview that the La La Land-Moonlight mix-up was “a little sad.”